On Friday, November 15, 2019 at 6:51:45 PM UTC-7, Lawrence Crowell wrote: > > On Friday, November 15, 2019 at 3:06:08 PM UTC-6, John Clark wrote: >> >> On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 10:27 PM Alan Grayson <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> *> I notice you habitually avoid discussing the problem of ontological >>> versus epistemological * >> >> >> It is a ontological fact that Bell's inequality is violated and there is >> no epistemological explanation for that fact. You keep wanting a mental >> picture of the quantum world that conforms with your common sense everyday >> expectations of how things should work, I'd like that too but our wish will >> never be granted. I like Many Worlds because although it's very bizarre >> it's the least bizarre quantum interpretation that fits the hyper bizarre >> facts; but the universe doesn't care what I think is strange so if it turns >> out Many Worlds is not true then we would know that something even stranger >> is. >> >> John K Clark >> > > There is no decision procedure to determine if QM is ψ-epistemic > or ψ-ontic. It is not provable either way. > > LC >
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